Profile

Nance Van Winckel’s most recent book is a memoir entitled Sister Zero (Slant Books, 2022).

She’s also the author of nine books of poetry, most recently The Many Beds of Martha Washington (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, 2021); Our Foreigner, winner of the Pacific Coast Poetry Prize (Beyond Baroque Press, 2017); and Book of No Ledge (Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series, 2016). Of her five books of fiction, Ever Yrs, a scrapbook novel (Twisted Road Publications, 2014), is her most recent. She is especially interested in combining text and visual art as well as all manner of hybrid forms.

Her author website is: nancevanwinckel.com; her visual poetry website is photoemsbynancevanwinckel.zenfolio.com.

Education

MA - Creative Writing | University of Denver

BA | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Hasanthika Sirisena

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Fernando A. Flores

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Adam McOmber

Faculty Co-chair, MFA in Writing [fiction/hybrid forms]; Editor in Chief, Hunger Mountain Review

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Brian Leung

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Leslie Ullman

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Betsy Sholl

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Geoff Bouvier

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/poetry/hybrid forms]

Chachi Hauser

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Clint McCown

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

SJ Sindu

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Tarfia Faizullah

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Patrick Madden

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/hybrid forms]

Natasha Sajé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry/CNF]

Connie May Fowler

Faculty Co-Chair, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]; Director, Novel Retreat

Melissa Faliveno

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Clifford Thompson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/ hybrid forms]

David Wojahn

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Nance Van Winckel

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/poetry]

T. Geronimo Johnson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Richard Jackson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Caleb Curtiss

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Wanjikū Wa Ngūgī

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Robin MacArthur

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Novel Retreat

Philip Metres

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Sue William Silverman

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/hybrid forms]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Miciah Bay Gault

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Novel Retreat

Ellen Lesser

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Director, Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Bret Lott

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Elena Passarello

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Barbara Hurd

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]